Cd atchman,
EELLEFONTE, THURSDAY, JULY 25.
Here shall the press the people's rights main-
tain, y
rwed by party or unbribed by gain;
Pledacd but to truth to liberty and law, i
No favor sways us and no fear shall awe.”
¢. T. ALEXANDER : Sublighors.
P G. MEEK, ? } Editors and Publishers.
Col. Brown and the Traitors.
Some weeks ago, the Centre Democrat
corumenced a personal and ungentlemanly
assault upon the editors of this paper, by
calling us traitors and secessionists, and, in
fart, all the hard names that the defamed
machinations of the nonsensical associate
editor could conjur up. We then, in order
to refate the libéls thus published to the
citizens of Centre gounty, submitted some |
facts in connection with the political history
of that personage, to which he failed to
reply, but, like the meanest of all beasts—
i
to be that which gives the Colonel so much
trouble. Then to'state it succinctly, we are
in favor of puttthg down ‘rébcllipn. As to
the means best éalculated to éffect this with
as little injury to'our country as possible,
we beg leave ‘to éxpress our opinion. We
have done this heretofore, by declaring our-
selves mn favor of 'an honorable settlement.—
We répeat it now ; if there is treason in
this, indict us. We have said heretofore,
that we believe it would take years of blood
and carnage to subdue the ¢ rebellious ”
States, and bring them back to their allegi-
ance, and that ten to one, if this had to be
done, we would, before through with the
task, have destroyed the most vital princi-
ples of the Government we are striving to
maintain. We repeat this now—if there is
treason here, indict us. We have said, and
say now, that we believe it to be the desire
of many of the men now in high places, to
make this ‘rebellion’ the pretext for the
abolition of slavery. The resolutions and
speeches of many of the members of Con-
gress, show that we were right. The tone
of the leading Republican new spapers, such
as the Tribune, the Pine and the Palm, &c.,
still further show that we are right--if there
be treason here, indict us. We Have said
that we are in favor of maintaining the Un
ion just as it is, just as-our fathers gave it
to us with all its institutions, slavery and
all, and thorefore opposed a war for the de-
struction of the constitutional institutions of
our Government. If this be treason, indict
No, they wish to preserve the Uniohi— not
destroy it. The Democracy set with cool
deliperation in this matter, looking forward
to the establishinent of peace. What a con-
trast between the action of Democracy, and
those fanaticul fools who set themselves up
as the leaders of the Rdpublican party in
this town, who do not hesitate to call even
Democratic soldiers *‘traitors.” Not a man
of this rabid sect, althongh last fall they de-
nounced Judge Hale for his peaceable pro-
clivities, has shouldered the wasket and
gone to make himself useful. Even that big
able bodied man, who, in a speech, said,
“I won’t say go, boys, but come, boys,” and
whom we have always herciofore entitled
the Colonel, is still among us, employing his
time in attempting to make a Baltimore out
of Bellefonte--a very laughable enterprise
for two Republican sheets claiming to, be
respectable. Wait, says the Press, until
the soldiers come home.” We too, say,
wait until the soldiers come home. We
shall meet them, and give them a hearty
good shake of the hand, and welcome them
to their homes as brave men, while the ed-
'itors of the Press and Democrat shonld hide
their faces in shame, for having upheld and
attempted to screen the abominable swin-
dlers who were the cause of much of their
suffering, for want of food and insufficient
clothing.
re ae al
The Assailants of the Democratic Party.
Certain pretended organs of the Republi-
piss bE pin
=
sinecures at Washington and are let loose to
vilify better citizens than themselves; pub
lic thieves, who have belonged in turn to
every political party, and are ready at any
time to sell out to the highest bidder ; low"
political prostitutes, despised by those
whose wages they receive. This is the des-
picable class of adventurers who endeavor
to convict every Democrat of sympathy with
secession and treason who will not deny his
political faith, by subscribing to the most
ultra dogmas of the fanatical wing of the
Republican party. — Patriot and Union.
ret on
Abolitionism in the Senate.
The course of the debate in the Senate is
significant, and réquirés sorhe comment. It
is unfortunate for the country, that the fa.
natical Lovejoy in the House, is seconded by
Abolitionists in the sénate, as ultra and rad-
ical as himself. Lahe and Pomeroy, of
‘Kansas, and Sumner, of Massachusetts, ap-
pear to be determined, if possible, to com-
mit the Administration to an endorsement of
their peculiar views, dd in every measure
tending to the establishment of the most
ultra dogmas of Abolititionism as the corner
stones of the National Republic, they have
the cordial support and cooperation: of Trum-
‘bull and Browning, of Illinois. Let the
country be warned'in time. Ifthe consery-
ative element in Congress does not inter-
‘pose, the Government will become irretriev
ably entangled in the meshes of this abomi-
nable delusion.
The motion of Mr, Powell ‘that the army
‘or navy shall ot be used to subjugate or
hold as conquered provinces any of the
States, or to interfere with African slavery.”
was voted down, twenty nine Senators ont
ree od
Fraud in the Navy Department.
After reading the following extract, taken | that the pipers Say
from the Philadelphia Inguirer, (a Republi arrested-on the char
can journal) our readers can have some idea 89
a Sma
————
The telegraph reports to this place, &tate |
. Patterson has b.%en
of ‘treason, aud theif
es on to prove him guilty by a conversa
how long the five hundred millions ‘hat tion that should have taked place beiween
1 } I . i de hd
Congress appropriated to carry ont the war Pim and some privates of the 2d Penna.
will last an administration whose chief acts, | Regiment.
It will be remembered that
thus far, have been to commit {rands upon | when Major Anderson failed to hold Fort
the volunteer soldiers, and fill the pockets of | Sumter with seventy five men against thou.
nfamous contractors with public money :
«A few days ago the steamer Cataline,
engaged as a Government transport, was
burned near Fortress Monroe, and this acci-
dental, or probably providential circum- | no
stance, 1s bringing to light the fact that there
are abases in the Navy Department to be
investigated, as well as at the War Depart-
ment.
‘ The steamer Cataline, it seems, was an
old and nearly nsed up hu'k, lying at New
York, a burden on the hands of her owners,
when the Southern outbreak occurred. She
had been up a long time for sale, but could
lic
sands of South Carolina troops, the Repub.
an party branded him as a traitor, aud
said he was “playing into the hands of the
‘rebels,’ ”’ and now that Gen. Patterson did
t succeed in cutting off Gen. Johnson's
retreat, and thus prevent him reinforcing
Beauregard, this whole patriotic (?) band
who had the bravery to stay at home, sets
up an awful howl and ery of traitor. If
Gen. Patterson has committed treason he
should be punished for it, but until there is
something more relinble than telegraphic
despatches, we think the people should be
find no purchaser at the price asked, ranging | sparing in their censure.
Arom ten to fifteen thousand dollars. Com
petent judges of such stock say she would
have been dear at any figure above $7500.
Some of our Philadelphia steamboat men,
were invited to take shares in her valuation
Tue Committee of Ways and Means baie
reported a bill providing for the assessment
of a direct tax upon real and personal prop-
¢rly amounting to $30.000,000. This tax
of fifteen thousand, refused to have any-| Will be distributed among the States in
thing at such a price. . eq!
“Since her destruction it turns-out that
through some dextrous manipulation by the
political adventurers and speculators with | SO
which New York City abounds, this poor
apology of a steam transport was chartered
by the Navy Department for ten thousand
dollars a month, with a clause in the con-
tract that if she should be lost, destroyed or
captured by the enemy, her owners were to
ual ‘proportions, the quota of Pennsylva-
nia being $2,920,000, or about ope dollar
for each inhabitant.
The necessary asses-
rs and collectors are provided for. The
bill also proposes to tax stills, boilers and
other utensils used in distilling spirituous
liquors, 15 cents on every gallon of capacity.
Fermented and malt liquors are to be taxed
5 cents on every gallon, and spirituous lige
uors 10 cents on a gallon.
Vehicles used
exclusively tor the transportation of mer~
chandize are to be free, but carriages are to
be taxed; those valued at $50 are to be
taxed $1 ; those over $1,000 will be taxed
receive fifty thousand dollars indemnity. Of
course, when so much was to be gained by
her loss, her destruction was certain. Un-
der-writers who are sometimes decived into
can party in this Btate, whose proprietors | of the thirty eight voting against it ; imply-
are filling their pockets from the Federal ing that, in the judgment of the Senate, the
coffers, and who therefore care not how long | army iS to be used to hold the States in re-
~a dog that has been caught killing sheep—| 0 yop ooanig, that, judging from the
skulked off from the contest, occasionally | oo coq principles of three-fourths of the
looking backwards to see whether he was
purcued. We then took pity on him and
saved him the indignation of an outraged
and cheated people, by stopping short in our
exposition of facts. The Colonel thought
that © facts were stubborn things ” indeed,
and feared to face them. We then thought
hin enred of his worse fault, (viz: lying
blackguardism,) but lke the beast above
alluded to, he has gone back to his old fafi-
ing and has again assailed us with. all the
bitterness of his malignant disposition. Ie
‘harges us with having written the letter
over the signature of Justice,” for effect
for gaining public sympathy. Avaunt
1, thon measurest other men’s dishonest
duplicity by thine own standard. We have
not yet sold our soul and bedy to the Devil,
wid wonld therefore scorn to stoop to such
tuplicity. We care not, however, for such |
speenlations of the Colonel, and could past,
that by in silent contempt, were it not that
a the same articie he calls us traitors, and
tempts to raise a spirit of mobocracy
among that small band of his followers (by
those twenty who last fall in the Count
{louse attempted to denounce Judge HaLg)
» acts of violence on persons and property.
ile would have had Judge Hare hung as a
raitor if it bad been in his power, but he
nd his disunion abolition co-workers had
a back water under the storm of indigna~
{onl
Republican members of Congress, that they
would not be willing that we shoud have
our national difficaltics® settled upon any
terms save war, to the extermination of sla-
very. We oppose men for this purpose, aud
‘the whole Northern people are opposed to it,
except those who foilow in the lead of the
Tribune, and are willing to let the ¢ Union
slide,” to get rid of slavery. If there be
treason here, indict us. We have opposad
the unconstitutional acts of the present Ad-
ministration. because we believe that in
times like these, we should be on the alert,
and expose the first step towards the de-
struction of the rights of the people. Na-
poleon the Ist, under he plea of military
necessity, usurped the rights of the people
and made himself dictator. We have no
reason to know that President Lincoln is
less ambitious. We have, tharefore, striven
only to put the people on their guard against
all and ev ery inroad upon their rights, Is
this treason ? {las it given the enemy aid
and comfort, to know we are werejin favor
of maintaing the Government in its intuity
and integrity, when they are in favor of dis-
stroying it 2 Does not the Democrat and
Press give them comfort at least, by contin-
ually telling them that the whole Democrat-
ic party in the North are their allies and an
cnemies to the Government. We think that
a plausible case of constructive treason
ion raised about their heads upon the rais-
ng of the voice of that venerable old citizen
might be made outin a competent court
from this very fact, The people of the
the present troubles last, see nothing in the
majestic rising of the prople in defence of
the Government but a splendid opportumty
of making money for themselves and politi-
cal capital against the Democratic party.
The same men, who employ all the time
not devoted to robbing the Treasury, to
charging the Democratic party with treason
and charging up. the extinct embers of old
controvereies, were not always so much in
love with the Union and the Governtent.—
They used to speak lightly of the Union,
and talk about letting it slide under certain
contingencies. They incessantly ridiculed
Democrats for expressing anxiety for the
preservation of the Union. They laughed
at the idea of danger. They denominated
all men who were solicitous for the future of
the country as ¢ Union savers ”—a phrase
to which they attazhed a peculiar degree of
odium. They not only stubbornly refused to
assent to a peaceful settlement of our na-
tional troubles when that was possible, but
showed their distrust of the people hy deny=
ing them the privilege of voting 'on the ques-
tion. The Chicago platform was their high-
er law, placed far above the Constitution, —
Perish a hundred Unions, they exclaimed,
rather than give an inch of this party plat-
form. They chronicicd and applauded every
infraction of the fugitive slave law. After
the Cotton States seceded from the Union,
they were in favor of letting them drift, and
they published articles to show that war
bellion as conquered provinces ; and to lib-
crate the slaves, (for the word * liberate *’
was substituted before the vote was taken.)
Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, strenuously denied
that the policy of the Administration was
‘the extermination of slavery, but the vote
shotved that the Senate held a different view.
Mr. Carlile, of Virginia, denounced the pol
icy of waging war against the domestic in-
‘stitutions of the South ; and rebuked. in
fitting terms, the radical sentiments that
had been uttered by Mr. Lane, of Kansas ;
yet, when the vote was taken, he formed
one of the twenty nme !
An Imminent Danger,
Lf the Union is to be restored to its origi-
nal integrity, the general government mast
proceed with a scrupulous regard for the
vested rights of masses of the Southern peo-
ple. We have assumed that the secession-
ists are only a faction, and that the people
whom ‘they profess to represent have bten
deluded or coerced intoa ruinous position.
If, then, our Government goes on to give a
coloring of truth to the allegations of the
‘conspirators—if we begin a waren property
by the wholesale emancipation of the slaves
and the burning and plundering of towns,
we roby Win Victories, but the - resteration
of the Union will become an impossibility,
and we shall have a war upon our hands
conn'ry will have to be reduced to the ¢on-
dition of Poland. We have been forced into
this train of remark by the Violent declar-
ations of the abolitionists in the Senate of
the United States. The radicals appear to
be gaining the ascendency among the Re-
publican majority, and they insist upon con-
verting the struggle into a movement for
the total abolition of slavery. In the mean-
$50, with intermediate rates in proportion
that will last for years, and one half of the
taking risks on such craft, will understand
very well how such a blind or corrupt con-
tract was sure to work. That the Catal/ine
would meet just some such'fate as has over-
taken her was surmised by some who were
adviséd of she particulars of the charter,—
Accordingly she has been burned. It ap-
pears that in addition to the pay of ten
thousand dollars, amounting now to about
seventy-five thousand dollars, and the fifty
thousand dollars indemnity, the Cataline
has been insured for twenty-five thousand
dollars, thus realizing to her owners and
Messrs. Orasmus B. Matteson & Co., the
political managers, about one hundred thou-
sand dollars for an unseaworthy hulk, not
worth ten thousand dollars.”
anes
For the Warcmya.
Messrs. Epitors.—Allow me to thank you
with all my heart, for your Editorial, on the
peace policy as expressed in your last week
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hard at work, and had even gone so far as
defeat at the hands of Galvez.
ed from the capital on the road to Toluca,
the value of the vehicle.
Cro eo i
More TrouBLE IN MEX1c0.— Advices from
exico to the 2d inst., indicate that aflairs
that country are in anything but a settled
The reactionary forces were
threaten the capital. The Government
rces under General Valle, had suffered a
Valle march-
the head of a thousand men, and was
mforced by ftve hundred more, when he
as met by a considerable reactior.ery force
by which he was surrounded and captured.
Valle was himself taken prisoner, and sub-
quently shot. A conspiracy had also been
discovered in the city, which had for its ob.
ject the assassination of various high per-
sonages.
ga, was at the head of ‘about 4,700 men,
and the latter, it was said, fully expected
Maiquez, in the interest of Zolu-
Watchman, they sre noble sentiments, ex-| Soon to enter the capital with very little
pressed in noble words, and if you live a °F
handred years, you can never do or say any-
honar ; the words, an honorable peace;
ought to be written in letters of gold, and
hung up in every housein the Unlon. If
we would only talk peace, an honorable
peace ; it would destroy the mighty engines | pl
of war, and bring those to reflect, that are
laboring they no not for what. I read s¢me
York Custom
press remarks that it seems to be forgotten
by the Republicans, especially by the Wide
position. Marquez had however aftempt.
ed an entrance, and had suffered a repulse
iy : by the government artilerists, and been
thing that will do your heart or head more | forced to retreat to Cuantitlan.
subscquently declared the city under war
tial law.
Congress
ee ert hed 20
Great Ruse por Orrice— Wink: AWAKE
Parrioriss.—There are five thousand ap-
icants for forty-four positions in the New
House. Upon this the Ez-
few days past one of the letters written by
Mr. Russel the English Correspondent, of
the London Times. The words “ The great
Republic is gone;” But in God's name let
Awake cape aud torch men, that in their
preliminaay drills last October and Novem-
Ler, they have already qualified themselves
for places in the rank and file of the army,
and that under these drills they are far bet-
"this county, Ezra Brissy. The people, | Northern States, are not traitors, as the two not such be the case, but let the people rise! ter prepared for ‘office’ there than the dem-
ume, Gen. McDowell is forced to complain
i honest working people of this county, |
vill make him back water again whén they |
came to fully understand the deception prac
diced upon them by him. When they sec
that, under the disguise of friendship for
their interest, he has led them astray, and
«hile they have been feeding him on the fat
of the land, their own hard earnings have
foted the bills. Working men give car,
for iu a little while you shall know all.
But, lest we tire our readerss wigh our
disagiecable subject (the Colonel.) we cut
our remarks short by the simple request that,
if we have uttered, through the columns of
our paper a single word or sentence savoring
of treason, we be indicted before a jury of
our county and fried for the offence. We
have no’ apprehension of that mob violence
that plugs in this community, like the Colo-
nel, threaten us with, and have only to say
to them thatif they wnt a good. warm,
Democratic reception to come on. We have
no desire to sce the day that an attempt of
that kind should be made, for, as persons
who have the peace of this community at
heart, we deprecate it from our very soul,
Republican newspapers in this County
would lead them to suppose, thus giving
them ¢éncouragemwent. But taen who aps
preciate the blessings of civil and religious
liberty that we enjoy under our system of
Government, and who are ready to defend
this Government against all assailants. The
Northern people do not believe in the right
of secession, or any other political hetesy of
that kind, but on the contrary believe that
the right of secession, along with others,
were surrendered to the general government
and not merely delegated. If the powers
granted by the States to the Federal Gov-
ernment, had only been delegated to it,
there might be some shadow of truth in the
argument, that they have the right: to re-
sume those powers delegated, Bat stead
of this being the case, they unconditionally
surrendered those rights to the Federal Gov-
ernment, and have no color of right to re-
sume them under any circumstance. It is
true that when a Government fails to give
that protection to life and property for which
it was created, the people injured can resort
to revelution, yet this revolution, even if
would not restore the Union.
Such was the spirit aiid temper of the class
of newspape,s previous to the great events
that have aroused the nation to the necessity
of war for its own protection and preserva
tion. The assault upon our flag, the reduc-~
tion of Fort Sumter, the immediate danger
of the Capital, at once excited and united
the people. Past political distinctions were
forgotten in the presence of the perils that
threatened to plung us into anarchy, and to
destroy the glorious fabric of government
reared and strengthened by successive gen-
erations of statesmen and patriots. The
watchword flew with more than electric
speed from State to State, for it was the
common impulse of patriotism that the Un-
ion must be preserved and the (Government
sustained. All classes and conditions of
aen, without respect fo their political opin-
ions or prejudices, without pausing to dis
cuss the origin of our national troubles,
without stopping to determme where the
greatest weight of respensibility should rest
obeyed the summons of the head of nation
to arms. Democrats did not hesitate or hold
of the shocking outrages committed by a
drunken and desperate soldiery, and loyal
Virginians say that if such proceedings are
continued the last vestige ot a Unien party
will be swept out of existance. The voice
of the people must be raised mn indignant
protest against this fearfull perversisn of a
movement, essentially conservative, into a
saturnalia of bloody and brutal tanatacism.
Whether slavery be right or wrong—wheth-
er the rebellion is the natural outgrowth of
that insitution, or the fruit of another tree,
such considerations ought not to influence
the character of the war. We desire to see
the Constitution mamtained as it 1s, and the
Union given back to us, as it was eight
months ago with the whole people secure
in the enjoyment of their vested rights. —
Let the Government look to it, that the ab
olitionists of the Jim Lane school do not
prevail in the national councils!
The above two extracts we copy, the first
from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the second
from the Sunday Mercury, because they in
themselves show and vindicate precisely
what the ‘Warcnman has for weeks been
trying to inculcate into the minds of the
people cf Centre County. There is an at-
tempt being made to make the Southern Res
bellion the pretext for the abolition of Sla-
and say, we will be but one nation ; and one
Government, and that there will be the same
Republic and the same Constitutional Union,
that has already survived, a dozen of nation
al changes mm almost every other country. —
May ours stand hereafter as they now are,
objects of human wonder and human affec-
tion. @ Should it be that our glorious old
Ship of freedom which has sailed so long
upon the waters of Independence, flounder
and sink amid the waves of Anarchy it will
be glory enough for us as patriots to go down
with the wreck.
Oar National Government is undergoing
2 great struggle now, for its own existence
and if it be sustained as I believe it will be,
it will come out of the conflict the admira-
tion of the world, and the noblest object
of human affection; and all those tbat have
contributed to ‘restore peace to our much in-
Jured, country will entitle themselves to the
thanks of civilized men for ages to come.
But on the other hand should war_con-
tinue for a number of years, and the olive
branch of peace not extended to our wisguid-
ed brethrer, it will involve the future of our | es
re
hi
to
ul
ocracy can possibly be.
ler Compromise ?
and the Republicans voted it down.
settled by compromise.
prefer war and then compromise, to compro-
mise and peace.—- Homes County (O.,) Far-
mer.
Aud it should be
membered, too, that never before, in the
story of this Government, was there a
place for every man that wanted a place—~
an office—a salary.
welcome wholeregimentsof the Wide Awake
battalions with open arms.
General Scott would
All they bave
do i8 to change the Torch for the Musket
and they can have place and position at
Fairfax, Arlington, Fort Pickens, uairo,
anywhere.” :
Wi0 Div Ir #—W ho voted down the Big
The South voted for it
Who voted down the Douglas Compro-
rise 2 The South voted for it and the Re-
publicans voted it down.
Who voted down the Border State Com-
promise ? The South proposed it and voted
for it, and the Republicans voted it down.
Who voted down the Crittendon Compro-
mise # The South proposed it and voted
for it, and the Republicans voted 1t down.
Lincoln says the diffieulty must be finally
he Republicans
Wuno Apvocares tae Wak 2—The loud-
t advocates of the existing deplorable war,
back. We say it in no boastful spirit, but
as an undeniable truth, that no political
purty in the country, and even the party
that triumphed in the last election; furnished
as many men for the war as the Democratic
party. The same fervent love for the Union
which impelled that party to labor and plead
for the preservation of the Union by peace-
ful means, constrained its members to enter
the ranks of the army after all hopes of sav-
ing the Union by compromise had vanished
and the Government was assailed by armed
foes. They did not waste time in discussion
or denunciation, or wait to conquer their
prejudices against the party in power, nor
did they pause to deliberate as to the pro-
priety of assisting an Administration m the
elevativn of which they had no hand, and
from whose domination they apprehened
fearful consequences. But they recognized
their obligations to the Government witliout
regard to those administering it, and their
liberties and mortality—the substance of | in which the country has keer involved by
our Coustitution—yes, our very civilization, | the Black Republican Party, are the politi-
1t will devastate one section of our county, cal demagogues, the partisan pricsts, and
; A the infamous speculators who are coining
and impoverish and demoralize the whole | fortunes out of the calamities of their coun-
of it.
try. The first want office ; the priests aro’
In the face of these tremendous conse- | for setting the niggers free ; and the specu-
Seiichi o Ahtonton fot oil t lators are for the accumnlation of pelf. The
quence§ which now threaten, let all consti poor unfortunate People—the farmers, me-
tutional and patriotic expedients be exhaust-
ed. Letusroll back the tide of secession-
chanics, and workingmen—are to be taxed"
to death, and then enslaved, as a conse:
ism, to incline the South to the North, as in [quence of all this infamous business.
the once happy days that are past and gone.
The master mind who can deliver us from
our present perils, will deserve a reward
whichno amount of mere material wealth
can measure. WwW. W.
but if it is farced upon us, we shall arrest
the stroke by the Lest means within our
reach. The law-abiding citizens of Centre
‘ounty, irrespective of party, would de-
sunce such a thing. as they are not ready
t, for party’s sake, to destroy the liberty
of the speech and of the press. They will
denounce the Centre Democrat and all its
abolition cohorts who council such a
course, and visit upon them the retribution
duc their evil deeds. Bat, in order that the
people fully understand who the traitors in
‘his comwunity are, we request of Col.
Browns that he point out the particular sen-
successful, cannot make right that which
was wrong in the beginning. The Democra-
cy of Centre county look upon this question
just in this light, and think that the seced-
ed States have committed a wrong upon
upon the Government, by resorting to revo-
lution without a sufficient cause, and that
their leaders are deserving of punish-
meut, and it isonly as to the method by
which we are to punish them that there is
any difference in the minds of the Northern
people,
The Republican leaders are in favor of do-
ing it, by one gracd blow from the military
tences in which we have uttered treason.— | arm of the Government, regardless of the
Yea, more, we demand it! The people of | consequences that may follow from it, while
Centre county demand it—the laws of our | the Democracy are cautious as to how that
country demand it, and they also demand | blow be applied in order that it may not res
that the publisher of such malicious and | bound and leave as smarting under the
malignant libels shall not go unpunished. | stroke. While the Democracy are willing
The word “traitor,” is of late indiscrimi- (and have showed that willingness by un-
nately hurled at the better thinging class of | mistakeable action in their ready and hearty
very and thus instead of there being a war
to maintain the Government under which we
live in its entirety and integrity, itis fast
assuming an anti slavery complexion. —
We have said that we are opposed to the
present war being carried to this extent, for
so speaking we have been denominated as
traitors by a set of fanatic raving inconsid~
erate fools, who by the course they have
taken, and the policy they advocate show a
desirc either to overthrow the Constitution
of our country, or else they have been so
far led astray by their fanaticism as to fail
to see and comprehend the intemtion and
design of if uot all at least a majority of the
party now in power, are the Northern peo-
ple prepared for such an issue 2 We trust
the coming clection will rebuke these men
for their infamous designs by electing men
who will be willing to settle this war short
of the attainment of suth a purpose.
Td OO
—— ee
A Bap Stare or Afrairs.—The American |
people see that they are on the very verge of
covering the laud with rivers of blood, de-
stroying co mm ree, crippling every branch
of industry, weighing the peeple down debt
and spreading ruin with a lavish hand all
over the country. To attempt to avert the
horrers by consessien and compromise is de- :
nominated treasow, by the office holders who
are preying upon the substance of the peo
ple.—Homes County (0. ,) Farmer,
a Pr er
——— ne.
Mgssrs. Epirors.— County officers must
soon be selected and I would suggest the
name of P. B. Gray Esq., of Patton town-
ship for Commissoner Mr. Gray is a good
Democrat and a thorough business man, —
He served as Comnissioner some seventeen
years since with credit to himself, and honor
to the party he represented. Give us such
No Coxpromse.—This is the class of men
who oppose compromise. Mark Them !
New York contractor says ‘he’ll be
our people, by a set of fanatical fools in this
community, who must thihk the laws pun.
response to the call of troops when our cher-
ished capital wasn danger) to render this
ishing libels, were last winter wiped from
the statute book along with the tonnage tax,
md that they now have license to talk ag
blow in the proper direction, they are not
willing that their lives and property shall
the hands of
obediance was willing and spontancous.
Surely, if ever there was a time when the
voice of the faciion should be hushed. and
when the partisans of the Administration
ought to ccase their warfare upon the Démo-
Tie news of the defeat of the Federal for-
ces at Manassas Junctjos, has cast a gloom
over our community that will not soon be
dispelled, although none of the troops from
this vicinity were engaged, yet our people
men as P. B. Gray on our ticket and the
opposition *“ may trot out’ their best man
with the expectation of being sadly defeated
PATTON,
d——d if he wants to see or hear of any
peace with the cursed scoundrels for ten
years.’
out of the war would have a nice thing, ifit
A man who makes $10,000 a month
etl pn could last ten years—120,000 a year, and
Wiisr we W ANT.—The Democracy want | $1,200,000 in “ten years. It 13 estimated”
our difficulties compromised and the war | thatover 150,000 Republican politicians are
brought to a close. They are not particular | directly interested in the war contracts. —
as to the exact terms of the compromise, but | They will fight hard against peace.
it must end the war, restore the country to] — =
peace, secure friendly relations between all Gooey Por AvuGusT, has been received;
the States, exact obedienec to the Coustitu- | and detracts nothing from its former envia-
tion ant snbmission to. the laws on the part | ble reputation.
of the whole people, North as well as South. |
This is what the Democracy of Centre Coun-
be wade the instrument in A
cratic party, whose members compose a |can feel for those whose friends are among
large proportion of the army, this is the the lost. It is terrible to think of the
time. And we are glad to say these malig- | frightful scenes that are being enacted upon
nant assaults do not come from men actually | our own loved soil, and when we know that
engaged in fighting the battles of the coun-! this is but the beginning of a war that may
try. They invariably come from the class | last year after year, makes one shrink with
of patriots who stay at home to rob the | horror to contemplate the future, and ask,
they please. We would advise the editor of | Northern Abelitionists to emancipate and
the Democral, who makes sore pretensions destroy all negrodom. They look forward
0 be a Lawyer, that ke read the laws of even in the ranks, and while they sco the
treason, for evidently he does not Know | bristling bayonets of the enemy’s army, to
vhat coustitutes that crime, If he hag no {a day in the future, when they shall again
work upon that subject, wo will loan hi | be, if not brothers at least friends, and are
ile had better also look up the laws oy | not willing to do anything that will so far
ole. We can scarcely close this article, [alicuate the affections of the people of the | trensury—from contract jobbers, furnishers | «if all men are Zot bathen? Ifo, whydelight 1 ¢v"\vapt and for this they are called disun- Harper FOR August, laden wih he rick’
; . 5 : i : sat s y ing \gS n an sacrifice 7 W t ties { s | istori ientifi itterany®
shout an allusion to the position we have | two sections of this country, as to render it of rotton clothing and worthless shoes, pen- i a A uns os ionists and traitors by the Job Brown Re. | Stores of historical, scientific and litterary
In one soft Lond of amity and love ? publicans, productions has heen received.
sen upon this war question, as it appears | impossible for us ever to live in peace again. | sioners of the Government ; men who hold ;